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(Message started by: Griffin on Dec 22nd, 2003, 11:35pm)
Title: Please help with ID
Post by Griffin on Dec 22nd, 2003, 11:35pm
http://www.pbase.com/image/24357719.jpg

Taken at Kowloon Park, Dec-18-2003.

Resembles a male koel but the eye is not red nor yellow bill. A drongo, no? It does not look like a blackbird either. Any help would be appreciated.

TIA.


Grifin.
Title: Re: Please help with ID
Post by Mike_Kilburn on Dec 23rd, 2003, 8:54am
Hi Koel

It looks to me like one of the Southern African Starlings and therefore a likely escape.

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Please help with ID
Post by Griffin on Dec 23rd, 2003, 10:19am

on 12/23/03 at 08:54:44, Mike_Kilburn wrote:
Hi Koel

It looks to me like one of the Southern African Starlings and therefore a likely escape.

Cheers
Mike


Mike,

Thanks for your help. I will check tomorrow if there is any captive SA Starlings in KP first. I could not find it again after that, so I am not sure if the bird is staying. I was tracing a hwamei which led me to this bird. I had a photo containing both.

Happy holiday.

Griffin.
Title: Re: Please help with ID
Post by Griffin on Dec 23rd, 2003, 3:47pm
After a bit of "googling" based on the id from Mike, I think this could be a Cape Glossy Starling  Lamprotornis  nitens.

See also :
http://gianfvil.gamersrevolt.it/Sud%20Africa/Glossy%20starling.htm.


Griffin.
Title: Re: Please help with ID
Post by Mike Leven on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:58pm
It is certainly a Lamprotornis starling from Africa. It could be a Cape Glossy Starling but I don't think that some other species in the genus can be ruled out - notably Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling.

Mike Leven
Title: Re: Please help with ID
Post by carmen on Jan 3rd, 2004, 8:53pm
http://www.geocities.com/harrypottercarmen/birdfine2.JPG
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carmen/carmen007.jpg
Kowloon Park 九龍公園
03/1/2004
Are they the same bird?? ??? I saw it near the Lotus pond around 10 am. It is glossy blue in colour.


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